Chapter 367. Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey a certain portion of the military reservation at Fort McArthur, California, to the city of Los Angeles, California, for street purposes and to amend an Act to authorize the acquisition for military purposes of land in the county of Montgomery, State of Alab
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CHAP. 367.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey a certain portion of the military reservation at Fort McArthur, California, to the city of Los Angeles, California, for street purposes and to amend an Act to authorize the acquisition for military purposes of land in the county of Montgomery, State of Alabama, for use as an addition to Maxwell Field, approved July 1, 1930. March 2, 1931.[[H. R. 2366](/us/bill/71/hr/2366).][[Public, No. 773](/us/pl/71/773).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Fort McArthur, Calif.Portion of, conveyed to Los Angeles, for street purposes.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey to the city of Los Angeles, California, by suitable instrument an easement for a right of way over a certain portion of the military reservation at Fort McArthur, California, to be designated by the Secretary of War, and subject to such conditions, restrictions, and reservations as the Secretary of War may impose for the protection of the reservation and subject to a perpetual right of way over said land for the uses of any department of the Government of the United States.
Said road is described as follows: Description.Beginning at a point in the southerly line of said lot 13, block 5, distant thereon east twenty-two and four one-hundredths feet from the southwesterly corner of said lot 13, block 5, said point being also a point in the northerly line of Thirty-sixth Street; thence west along said southerly line of said lot 13, block 5, and along the westerly prolongation thereof, a distance of seventy-eight and eighty-four one-hundredths feet to a point; thence northeasterly along a curve concave to the southeast, tangent at its point of beginning to a line bearing north twenty-one degrees twenty-one minutes thirty seconds east and having a radius of one hundred ninety-two and twenty one-hundredths feet, a distance of one hundred four and forty-seven one-hundredth feet, measured along the arc of said curve to a point; thence northerly along a curve concave to the west tangent at its point of beginning to said last-mentioned curve at its point of ending and having a radius of two hundred sixty-seven and eighty-seven one-hundredths feet, a distance of four hundred ninety and ninety one-hundredths feet, measured along the arc of said curve to a point; thence northwesterly along a curve concave to the northeast tangent at its point of beginning to said last-mentioned curve at its point of ending and having a radius of one hundred ninety-two and twenty one-hundredths feet, a distance of one hundred fifteen and ten one-hundredths feet, measured along the arc of said curve to a point in the westerly prolongation of the northerly line of lot 1, block 4, Rena Harbor Heights tract, hereinbefore mentioned, distant thereon west sixty and forty one-hundredths feet from the northwesterly corner of said lot 1, block 4; thence east along said last-mentioned westerly prolongation and along said northerly line of lot 1, block 4, said last-mentioned northerly line being also the southerly line of Thirty-fourth Street, a distance of seventy-six and fourteen one hundredths feet to a point; thence southeasterly along a curve con-cave to the northeast, tangent at its point of beginning to a line bearing south twenty-nine degrees twenty-four minutes twenty seconds east and having a radius of one hundred twenty-two and twenty one-hundredths feet, a distance of sixty-four and eighty-eight one1467hundredths feet, measured along the arc of said curve to a point; thence southerly along a curve concave to the west tangent at its point of beginning to said last-mentioned curve at its point of ending and having a radius of three hundred feet, a distance of six hundred twenty-six and fifty-one one-hundredths feet, measured along the arc of said curve to a point; thence southwesterly along a curve concave to the southeast tangent at its point of beginning to said last-mentioned curve at its point of ending and having a radius of one hundred twenty-two and twenty one-hundredths feet, a distance of fifty-three and seven one-hundredths feet, measured along the arc of said curve to the point of beginning.
That the proviso to the first section of an Act entitled “An Act Maxwell Field, Ala.*Ante*, p. 839.to authorize the acquisition for military purposes of land in the county of Montgomery, State of Alabama, for use as an addition to Maxwell Field,” approved July 1, 1930, which reads as follows:Certain prescribed conditions for acquiring addition to, removed. “ *Provided*, That no part of the amount authorized to be appropriated shall be expended until it has been determined to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War that acquisition of all additional land required at Maxwell Field for the proper and necessary accommodation of the Air Corps Tactical School and one Air Corps observation squadron can be accomplished by purchase or donation without exceeding expenditure by the Federal Government of the amount of such authorization, ” be and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, March 2, 1931.